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Curious Plants and Flowers now in their Perfeétion. 
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HiS is a Plant whofe Singularity firft 
gave it a Place in Gardens, which it 
cuous, in the higheft Degree: it ferves the dou- 
ble Purpofe alfo of Ornament and Ufe; for it 
affords an excellent Pickle. | 
Its vulgar Name is Guinea Pepper: the com- 
mon Writers call it Capfcum, and Piper Indicum. 
Linnavus diftinguifhes it by the Name of Cap- 
has a Right always to preferve. re 
Fig.1. Flower is inconfiderable, but the Fruit is con{pi- 
Jicum caule berbaceo:’Capficum with herbaceous — 
Stalks. 
The Plant is two Foot high, varioufly diffus’d 
in Branches, and but irrecularly ereé&t. The 
Leaves are undivided, long, and broad. The 
Flowers are moderately large, and of a whitith 
Colour, with a kind of ‘purple Knob in the 
Centre. They hang on Foot-ftalks from various 
Parts of the Plant. 
The Fruit is very large, long, thick, and of 
a glofly Surface. Its Colour is an elegant Scar- 
det, and it refembles polifh’d Coral. 
' The Flower examined accurately, is found to be 
conftructed of a fingle Petal, tubular a little Way 
at the Bottom, and divided at the Top into five 
broad, folded, expanded, and pointed Seements. | 
This Flower ftands in a Cup, form’d ofa fingle 
Piece, divided at the Edge into five or. more 
_ Parts, which remains with the Fruit: in the tu- 
~bular Part of the Flower arife five Filaments : 
thefe are fhort and {mall, but their Buttons are ob- 
Numb. I. 
1, COMMON CAPSICUM. 
long and large; they converge at the Top, and to= 
gether form the Clufter in the Centre of the 
F lower. In the Midft of thefe ftands the Styles 
which is fingle and blunt at its Extremity. 
We obferved to the Reader in our Arft Num- 
ber, that the Fifth Clafs of LInNzevs, compre- 
hends under the Title of Penranprra, thofe 
Plants in whofe Flowers are only five Threads, 
Capficum is: one of thefe; and the Style being 
fingle, it is referred to the firft Se@tion of that 
Clafs, It is therefore one of the Penranprra 
Monocrnta, Thefe Terms we have explained 
already ; their Senfe is, that the Flower has five 
Male and one Female Part. 
The Culture of CAPSiIcuM, 
It is.a Native of the warmeft Climates of 
America and Africa; and is an annual Plant. 
It is one of thofe the Gatdener mut: raife on * 
hot Beds in Spring, to plant out into his Borders 
in the Summer. : 
To do this properly, feveral of thefe Hot Beds 
are requir’d one to fucceed the other: each is to 
receive the Plants which the former have thrown 
up from the Seed, or raifed to fome Bignef. 
Let .the firft Hot Bed be made ready for the 
Seeds in February; the laft Week of that Month 
will be the proper Time for fowing them. Some 
do it later; but the Plants rais’d early have a 
Bs great 
Sept. 
